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<p>I’m simply providing appropriate context. Why do engineering programs feel that it is appropriate to weed out boatloads of students, but HASS majors don’t? </p>
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<p>It seems to me that what it means is that those majors aren’t particularly challenging in the first place. After all, far more former engineering students who perform poorly will migrate to HASS than the reverse. {How many former English majors will decry that they performed poorly and so, if they want to graduate, they have ‘no choice’ but to major in chemical engineering?} </p>
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<p>Huh, I would argue that it is especially true in ST-M curricula. After all, how many ST-M problem sets of exams - which comprise the overwhelming majority of the grading - allow you to ‘be creative’ about the answers you provide? If you don’t execute the specific procedure that the solution key supports, you will fail. How exactly is that conductive towards creativity?</p>